Custom Language Files

[jackennils]

Hey there!

Imagine you have a board which user you don't want to call user or member, but maybe player. Or something else, it doesn't matter. And you also want to change some other terms from the common.php language file or any other. But if you change the original files, your changes are gone after the next update.

It would be great to have an extension that allows to modify the core language files and sits on top of them. So all changes you have made are still there after the update.

Something like this...
viewtopic.php?f=456&t=2275361
... but only for language files.


Hope you understand what I'm thinking about.

[3Di]

That's easy top do I believe.

Make a simple extension which calls the event core.user_setup_after then make a function which calls a common.php language file.
IE.

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	/**
	 * Load extension language file during user set up.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 * @access public
	 */
	public function setup_lang()
	{
		$this->lang->add_lang('common', 'vendor_name/package_name');
	}

At this point copy/paste all the original language strings you want to modify into that common.php, modify the description as you wish.
IE. from the native

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	'WARN_USER'			=> 'Warn user',

to yours

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	'WARN_USER'			=> 'Warn citizen',

Enabling the estension the result should be to override the native language.

[jackennils]

Sounds good, if someone is willing to realize this, I would be very grateful.

[david63]

I think that in theory you are right Marco but in practice it may not always work 100% as it is dependant on when and how the language files are loaded and there is a possibility that the common language file could be loaded after the extension language file (probably unlikely but possible)

[</Solidjeuh>]

See my ext: https://github.com/Solidjeuh/BoardMagic
You can add css, html & language strings

[jackennils]

Interesting. Does you ext consider david's concerns?

[</Solidjeuh>]

Interesting. Does you ext consider david's concerns?

This ext overrides the core language strings. never had any problems with it.

[jackennils]

Okay, I'll give it a try. Thanks again.

[jackennils]

I just gave it a try and it seems that every time I change something, at least if it is css, I need to disable and re-enable the ext for the changes to appear. Correct? I was more or less thinking about a more convenient solution with a nice interface. But it'll do the job for now.

[</Solidjeuh>]

I just gave it a try and it seems that every time I change something, at least if it is css, I need to disable and re-enable the ext for the changes to appear. Correct? I was more or less thinking about a more convenient solution with a nice interface. But it'll do the job for now.

That's normal. If you change something in css you need to clear the forum cache + browser cache (CTRL F5)
Same goes for other ext and style changes

[Senky]

Just purge the cache in ACP, it should automatically add a new asset_version to every file, thus forcing browsers to reload them.